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2025 NBC plans to rebroadcast O'Connor's unedited live performance in a documentary special '50 Years of SNL Music', with Lorne Michaels acknowledging her bravery and sincerity.
January 15 2025 Launch of Euronews' permanent Polish-language service as the 18th language, coinciding with Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
2024 Radio Free Asia received the National Edward R. Murrow Award in the Network Radio Digital category for the report 'Under the Gun in Myanmar'.
September 16 2024 Meta banned RT from its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, citing foreign interference activity.
August 9 2024 RT's broadcast and studio equipment in Washington DC were auctioned off, signaling potential operational changes or challenges for the network.
March 2024 RFA announced the closure of its Hong Kong bureau due to safety concerns stemming from Hong Kong's National Security Ordinance.
2023 After O'Connor's death, public opinion shifted retrospectively in support of her earlier protest against Catholic Church abuse.
2023 After O'Connor's death, her SNL incident is revisited, with commentary suggesting she was unfairly treated and never professionally recovered from being 'totally cancelled'.
September 2023 RT launched its online platform in Portuguese as 'RT Brazil', expanding its international media presence.
March 2 2023 Euronews announces relocation of its principal and editorial headquarters to Brussels, creating 100 new positions while eliminating 198 staff positions in Lyon.
February 2023 Good Morning Europe, Euronews Tonight, and Global Weekend programs were discontinued
February 2023 The Saudi-based MBC Group added Euronews to its Shahid streaming platform, and satellite distribution of its French-language channel on Astra ceased at the end of the month.
February 2023 Euronews launched multiple new programming segments, including 'Wake up Europe' morning news, 'The European Debrief' weeknight news, and '5' Weekend' 5-minute weekend news segment.
2022 RT begins a three-year funding period expected to receive 82 billion rubles between 2022 and 2024.
2022 Follow-up meta-analysis by Hagai Levine revealed accelerating decline in sperm concentration and count, with steeper declines in studies post-2000.
2022 A second meta-analysis expanded the findings, demonstrating that the sperm count decline is not limited to Western countries but also affects regions in Asia, Africa, Central America, and South America, suggesting an accelerating trend of male fertility decline.
2022 Euronews introduced the 'Brussels my love?' European affairs talk show.
October 2022 RT launched RT Balkan to expand its audience. RT presenter Anton Krasovsky was suspended after making inflammatory comments about Ukrainian children and sexual violence.
September 2022 RT launched RT Hindi to expand its audience.
August 2022 RT France challenged the EU ban in the General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which was ultimately dismissed on 27 July 2022.
July 2022 Alpac Capital finalizes purchase of an 88% controlling stake in Euronews, following approval from the French government.
June 2022 The National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine appealed to Euronews leadership, accusing the network of promoting a pro-Kremlin narrative in Russian-language broadcasts. CEO Guillaume Dubois responded, defending the network's coverage and expressing solidarity with Ukraine.
June 2022 Guillaume Dubois, a former broadcasting director at LCI, was appointed as the new CEO of Euronews, taking over leadership of the organization.
May 25 2022 Euronews launched its Romanian language service
May 25 2022 Started broadcasting Euronews Romania, covering Romania and the Republic of Moldova.
May 5 2022 Launched Euronews Bulgaria, starting broadcasting in Bulgarian language.
April 7 2022 Euronews' original broadcast frequencies were handed over to a new channel operated by sanctioned state TV journalist Vladimir Solovyov.
March 2022 Roskomnadzor ordered restrictions on Euronews access in Russia, including online services, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
March 16 2022 The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission officially banned RT and RT France from the list of authorized non-Canadian programming services.
March 11 2022 YouTube blocked RT and Sputnik worldwide.
March 3 2022 Reddit blocked new outgoing links to RT and Sputnik.
March 3 2022 RT America closed operations.
March 2 2022 RT UK closed operations.
March 1 2022 YouTube banned access to all RT and Sputnik channels in Europe. Apple removed RT and Sputnik from its App Store in all countries except Russia.
February 28 2022 Ofcom opened 15 expedited investigations into RT, focusing on news editions broadcast on 27 February. Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok made RT's social media content unavailable in the European Union.
February 27 2022 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the European Union would ban RT and Sputnik from operating in its 27 member countries, leading to widespread blocking of RT across international networks.
February 24 2022 Former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond suspends his RT talk show in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
February 23 2022 French RT host Frédéric Taddeï quits his show following Russia's recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk breakaway states.
January 2022 RFA announced the appointment of Carolyn Bartholomew as the new chair of its board of directors.
2021 BenarNews, a RFA affiliate, won the Murrow Award for Excellence in Video from the Radio Television Digital News Association. RFA's affiliate 歪脑 | WHYNOT won the Online News Association's Journalism Award for a feature on preserving the Chinese Feminist Movement.
2021 Shanna Swan published 'Count Down' book, projecting potential sperm count decline to zero by 2045 if current trends continue.
2021 Teamed up with Politehnica University of Bucharest to launch a Romanian language channel.
2021 Liubov Tsybulska, chair of the Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security, claimed that Kremlin influence was visible in Euronews' reporting, not just in Russian-language material but also in English-language news presentation.
2021 Signed partnership with TV Europa to launch a Bulgarian language channel.
December 2021 In Germany, RT was the No. 1 news source in terms of Facebook engagements (December 2021-January 2022).
December 2021 RT launches RT DE TV in Germany using a Serbian broadcasting license, but is removed from European satellites a week later at the request of the German media regulator.
September 2021 RT's German service (RT DE) was removed from YouTube for breaking the website's rules on COVID misinformation.
August 18 2021 RAMI RIA Novosti was liquidated, and the ownership of ANO TV Novosti was transferred to ADIJ.
July 2021 Euronews launched the 'Euronews Witness' current affairs series.

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